I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.

Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.

We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.

Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.

The wolf never kills for fun, which is probably one of the main differences distinguishing him from man.

It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.

Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions.

After all, we fought the Yanks in 1812 and kicked them the hell out of our country - but not with blanks.

And this is what happened, ands this is why the caribou and the wolf are one; for the caribou feeds the wolf, but it is the wolf that keeps the caribou strong.

Ah me son, we don't be takin' nothin' from the sea. We has to sneak up on what we wants and wiggle it away

If you are going to be a big personality, you've got to have some kind of characteristic gimmick.

It [the rocket] will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

I wanted to soothe and comfort her, the way she had comforted her daughters.

Injurious Personis not the Person who got Hurt, Its a person who got Learned.

Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.

The important question is, how many hands have I shaked?

It's a pity people pick and choose what they learn from the Bible.

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking.

Real love will take you far beyond yourself;and therefore real love will devastate you.

I look a little like Beaker. I think I'm a cross between Beaker and The Count. My hair looks like Oscar the Grouch. It's Muppety hair.

Honey, I don't care, I ain't in love with your hair, and if it all fell out I'd love you anyway.